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More good stuff.

Posted by bigbadron
Isida KepTukari
member, 266 posts
Elegant! Arrogant! Smart!
Tue 23 Apr 2019
at 01:55
  • msg #838

Re: More good stuff.

Alas no, but I did help corral a dog who had escaped his owners, and bundle him up in said towel to keep him safe and warm until the police could come to get him to the shelter (and he was reunited with his owners later that day).
CrazyIvan777
member, 271 posts
Mon 29 Apr 2019
at 03:41
  • msg #839

Re: More good stuff.

Yay happy safe dog! Good job, you!

In two and a half weeks, my second book comes out. I honestly... I never thought I'd even get -one- published, let alone two. I continuously think of how my parents regularly stifled my hopes in that direction, and how the first book was partially inspired by the 3-year-lingering death of my dad due to ALS. But now I've got not one, but two. I did what my parents told me was impossible, and I'm still doing it. I'm excited. I can't wait to get a physical copy of the second novel. I'm just... Kinda stoked.
icosahedron152
member, 951 posts
Mon 29 Apr 2019
at 04:06
  • msg #840

Re: More good stuff.

Congrats Ivan - twice!

Never let anyone tell you what's possible and what isn't.

Nobody knows what you're capable of - not even you, until you try.
Yaztromo
member, 235 posts
Sun 12 May 2019
at 02:07
  • msg #841

Re: More good stuff.

Another of my games reached the 2,000 posts mark!
I came back to GMing on RPoL after long years to run just a one-off memorial adventure (targeting a few weeks or perhaps a couple of months of gaming) and... weeks became months, then years, and the number of games I run or play grew... very unplanned...
praguepride
member, 1393 posts
"Hugs for the Hugs God!"
- Warhammer Fluffy-K
Sun 12 May 2019
at 16:42
  • msg #842

Re: More good stuff.

A co-worker put in a request for me that basically gives me two days off of work. There are some tasks that we do that are super easy and low effort but take a long time. I covered for him while he was on vacation and in response he made the request for me to do it for a couple of days. It is helpful to the company but I always feel kinda guilty requesting it myself but he went to bat for me and now I get to
have two days working that is mostly me monitoring diagnostics while watching TV.
V_V
member, 863 posts
Remember me as V, just V
My journey is near an end
Tue 1 Oct 2019
at 22:39
  • msg #843

Re: More good stuff.

Wow...look like a good comment might be overdue.

I'm really glad I FINALLY got our stuff moved out of our storage unit. I had a fire in late Feburary, and our stuff was there (apparently to save for OTHER people). So that's a couple hundred to save for the November to Feburary to save for the next
move.

In other good news, which is what prompted me to make this post, I discovered the colored text and strikethrough option. Wherein you can color the strike-line the surrounded color See here! or you can have the stricken out text be marked over by the same color. Like this!

I know I'm middle-aged, and typically the type to be amazed, but I REALLY appreciate that level of care jase took. It's little gems like this that renew the delight when I find them. :D

P.S. if you don't have colored text enabled, just do a faux-post and quote it, it'll make more sense that way to see the coding difference. It's just a seeding order. Still! I love it!
This message was last edited by the user at 22:40, Tue 01 Oct 2019.
SunRuanEr
subscriber, 156 posts
Tue 1 Oct 2019
at 22:52
  • msg #844

Re: More good stuff.

Holy schnickies, that colored/not-colored strikethrough option is spectacular! I had no idea you could do that, either. Thanks for pointing that out, V_V! :)
V_V
member, 864 posts
Remember me as V, just V
My journey is near an end
Wed 2 Oct 2019
at 00:19
  • msg #845

Re: More good stuff.

In reply to SunRuanEr (msg # 844):

Yeah! I thought someone, or a maybe a group of people, might not know that already either.

I love end user coding! Like this--not actual production coding [the real work]).

I'm slow to catch on, but once I know a trick on RPoL, or in spreadsheet, I'm quick to add it to my creative toolbox.

I took a year of college for a programming degree, at the height of the Dot-com bubble and html razor's edge. I, sadly, couldn't quite grasp base 12, and confused it with base 13. So flunked out, solely because of that small fallacy and similar ones, essentially adding an erroneous numeral. During that first semester though, I was a golden child, and was great for my fellow schoolmates to debug their code. Having OCD, I was like a monkey grooming for that single pesky bug and not content until I found it. I loved it!

I still enjoy being able to help friends with spreadsheet coding, and things like this. I know I'm far behind the curve, as the digital age demands horizon walking, but I kindle the flame of that young adult V's passion in little end user appreciation. :) It's like when I worked in my school cafeteria for a year, and served the whole district's faculty. Once you're/I'm behind the code/counter, you're/I'm always quick to recognize, appreciate, and complement the work done to bring the product to you/me. :)
horus
member, 902 posts
Wayfarer of the
Western Wastes
Wed 2 Oct 2019
at 06:01
  • msg #846

Re: More good stuff.

V_V:
Wow...look like a good comment might be overdue.

I'm really glad I FINALLY got our stuff moved out of our storage unit. I had a fire in late Feburary, and our stuff was there (apparently to save for OTHER people). So that's a couple hundred to save for the November to Feburary to save for the next
move.


I bet you are glad of that.  I have a storage unit to go through very soon, and I'm not looking forward to it, but gotta get that thing off the books!

quote:
In other good news, which is what prompted me to make this post, I discovered the colored text and strikethrough option. Wherein you can color the strike-line the surrounded color See here! or you can have the stricken out text be marked over by the same color. Like this!


A similar thing occurs with underlined text.  Let me see if I can demonstrate:

This goofy sample text is colored first, then underlined.

This goofy sample text is underlined first, then colored.

quote:
I know I'm middle-aged, and typically the type to be amazed, but I REALLY appreciate that level of care jase took. It's little gems like this that renew the delight when I find them. :D


I'm getting to be rather old, and it amazes me to see the level of care being taken, not only in the coding, but in listening to users and attempting to incorporate their feedback into the new site and the old.  Yep, I agree, jase has got this thing under power.
Yaztromo
supporter, 298 posts
Wed 2 Oct 2019
at 06:16
  • msg #847

Re: More good stuff.

Great news (for me): I understood the above post! :P
Mad Mick
member, 972 posts
GURPS beyond measure,
outlander
Sat 5 Oct 2019
at 05:54
  • msg #848

Re: More good stuff.

I just finished a game today that I started seven years ago for some folks from another site who wanted to play a play-by-post game. I'm really awful as a GM and have had a tendency to disappear for half a year at a time in the past (I've been better since this summer, but I'm not out of the woods yet), and all the original players have long since left. I had one player left, someone who joined six years ago and took over a PC from one of the other characters. I've played with this person in a number of other games, but this is the only time I've been a GM for this player.

I feels so great to actually finish an adventure! I've been privileged to have completed a few other adventures as a GM, but this one feels particularly good, especially since it should have died, but my player didn't give up on me. I'm really grateful for the excellent players we have here on RPOL.
V_V
member, 888 posts
Script like razors
Absence like wire
Sat 11 Jan 2020
at 12:17
  • msg #849

Re: More good stuff.

I had mildly positive day after months of agony and turmoil. I gamed, had enough to eat, didn't need to raise my voice (except in character) and just generally felt like the elephant went to another room.

Thank yous to the countless people that Rmailed me since almost a year ago. Back in late February. I'd name drop some, but I can just tell you personally and tailored to you. For those I do not count or remember; it did mean the world to me to have that positivity to latch onto. It's a mad, mad, mad, MAAAAD world. MY problems were so common, but so heavy, and the cheering up and company, the tolerance or my tactiturn disposition, the general tickling of updates; they finally brought me to...and pretty a good day. :)

I hope to have another soon. (c:
This message was last edited by the user at 12:18, Sat 11 Jan 2020.
V_V
member, 889 posts
Script like razors
Absence like wire
Mon 13 Jan 2020
at 04:17
  • msg #850

Re: More good stuff.

I know this is a super double post, but damn it! This made my day. Being such a stick in the mud for sports; football, American football, soccer, hockey, rugby, baseball, cricket, blah, blah blah...it does nothing for me. THIS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sxMqLjTv6k

did though. Having a friend who LOVES Dr. Mario, one would think I would gravitate toward that, but no, my Youtube feed knows I like Snooker (sp?) and Tetris. This was THE best Sports match I've ever seen...ever. Granted I wasn't THERE, and it wasn't live, but I still felt the hype. I got, in this moment, what my area must have felt with the KC Chiefs and Royals in the past decade turn around, and the KU Basketball that just...did nothing for me. I finally got fired up feeling that I know so many others get from others sports.

Some may call E-sports "not real" sports, but the feeling, the attitude the appreciation is I think what's important to me. Whether or not it is aerobic, it's still PHYSICAL. The Brain is an organ, and it needs exercise to stay sharp. The muscle retention, in this match if nowhere else, is just legendary. Sure, they're sitting, but to me it's still a sport, and I loved this match! It made my day. Just such an unexpected treasure in my Youtube feed. :)
V_V
member, 900 posts
Just like that...
my journey..finds me home
Mon 3 Feb 2020
at 03:38
  • msg #851

Re: More good stuff.

I started playing PlugY (a Diablo 2 "unofficial" content patch) and really getting into hell difficulty. I was doing countess runs, because I'm even too pitiful to do pits on players 1. Anyway, Last night Diablo clone spawns, and I'm curious. So I check it out. I end up planning for like 45 minutes what gear I have,m what runes I can afford to combine...all that that. I beat him! That was last night.

Well, what makes this post isn't that. It's that I'm just sitting in town, today, waiting for my roommate and friend to join the game after she's done eating dinner (after work). Well, sure enough, Diablo clone comes back, and I'm like O_o "really?" and OF COURSE Anne wants to see it. We totally forget she can join, as right then she was in spectator mode. Again, I use the same plan, I end up feeling like I just went to a sleazy payday loan place in act 1 trying to pawn off anything I can to get my merc rezzed. I must remind you all, I'm level 82. I have SOME good gear, but not much. It's SUPPOSED to be done like level 90...but anyway, we can't resist.

I run down to the dregs and tell Anne "I gotta throw in the towel. I just can't afford to pawn off the rest of my stuff." I mean, I sold gems and shhhh to Akara I was so on point to SHOW Anne I could do it. Then I'm like, off handed "I wish there was some way I could do this. I wish you could join the game" then I looked up, and remembered. I'm in a LAN! I STARTED the game to item gift her stuff.

Anyway, we beat him. Through grit and MUCH crushing blow and DEATH...and a playlist of fight songs. But we beat it,m andf right then! The Chiefs win the superbowl (at least I <>think</i> they did) and fireworks go off. I couldn't care less, but I don't...oh! another firework! Anyway....I don't begrudge people who are sports fans, as stated before, I loved that with Tetris. I live in Johnson County Kansas, so yeah, Chiefs winning the super bowl (???) is going to turn Anne's school and work into a PTO. Which is sweet! I just thought it epic that the fireworks went off, RIGHT, after I beat Diablo (again) lmao. For those who aren't familiar, I mean the Realms event Diablo; not typical Chaos Sanctuary. xD Okay? Just in case you haven't played since it was in patch....oh god...like ywhat 17 years ago?! This is suped up version of Diablo. It's how you get a unique charm. Just saying, it wasn't just hell Diablo. Anyway...
facemaker329
member, 7239 posts
Gaming for over 30
years, and counting!
Thu 30 Jul 2020
at 06:03
  • msg #852

Re: More good stuff.

So...it's been a while.  About time someone posted something here again, even if it's a stupid-simple thing...

A friend of mine does event entertainment production.  That is, event planners contact her to book entertainment of various sorts.  She's been having, understandably, a pretty lean year.  I usually help out with some of the events...in some cases, I'm even part of the entertainment...but with no events happening, I haven't gotten to play a whole lot this summer.

Tonight was the first event I've worked in ages.  And it was...kinda weird, actually.  A charity group set up in a Parade-of-Homes house and...just invited people, I guess.  There was no real coherent theme to anything.  It was a HUGE house...three stories, any one of which was probably four times larger than my entire apartment PLUS the storage space there PLUS the storage space I'm renting.  There was one room up on the second floor that was a Cinderella bedroom.  The Rec Room (adjacent to the in-home theater) had a Star Wars themed mural painted on one wall.  They had Cinderella upstairs with her fairy godmother.  There was also an area company that brought animals to events for photo ops (didn't see what they brought...probably puppies or something...)  I was dressed as an X-Wing pilot, together with Darth Vader and a Stormtrooper, in the rec room.  All we did was stand there and take pictures with people.  We had someone dressed as Moana that was roaming the ground floor (upstairs from us) and outside, with another company that brought snakes and lizards and other creepy-crawlies for photo ops (that guy, I actually know...he's done booth at local cons, and I have some pretty cool pictures of me in various costumes with five or six huge snakes draped around my neck...)  And at the end of the night, they had a Polynesian fire-dancer and a fire-breather.  Like I said, no real theme...just a chance for people to wander around an insanely large house with all kinds of cool stuff in it, and take pictures.

But it felt so refreshingly normal, for just a few hours...
Serai1@aol.com
member, 147 posts
Sun 11 Oct 2020
at 20:15
  • msg #853

Re: More good stuff.

I love a good epistolary, and I just read a nice one.
Fyrerain
member, 103 posts
Thu 1 Jul 2021
at 03:54
  • msg #854

Re: More good stuff.

Dang, people need to find more joy in their lives... October of last year?!

Okay, here's something more current. :)

I've been healing up after a surgery early this month. I'm back up to lifting - as of tonight! - 50 pounds. (I unloaded a 50 pound bag of grain, yay!) I also had to get more regular feed for my horses today. Those are 80 pound bags. I still can't lift that much, but I can drag it. So I got 10 bags at the mill, figuring I'd have to leave half in my truck and keep it tarped... but it turns out my tailgate is 4 bags high, so it wasn't that much harder to drag that 5th bag up onto the 4th. Two stacks of five, and I've unloaded all my feed myself! Yay!

I find it uncomfortable to ask for help in providing basic care for my animals on any kind of a long-term basis, so being able to do the work myself is important. :)
GreenTongue
member, 980 posts
Game Archaeologist
Thu 1 Jul 2021
at 17:14
  • msg #855

Re: More good stuff.

When Good is normal, it is sometimes easy not to appreciate it, till is isn't.
Winter51
member, 173 posts
Thu 1 Jul 2021
at 17:43
  • msg #856

Re: More good stuff.

In reply to Fyrerain (msg # 854):

I feel your pain. Going in for shoulder surgery next week. Fortunately, our mill only does 50 pound bags of feed (that's horses, dogs, chickens, etc) so I've been handling that when I must but I'm not supposed to lift over 20 pounds. Now, 2 to 4 weeks in a sling and 4 to 8 weeks recovery... gotta ask for help even though we don't want to.
Fyrerain
member, 104 posts
Fri 2 Jul 2021
at 00:25
  • msg #857

Re: More good stuff.

Ouch. One of my best friends is having surgery on her shoulder in the next month or so. She just found out this week the severe pain in her shoulder is because a muscle is torn 70% through. Her husband already does all the livestock care,  though - probably why this happened "spontaneously." Lifting her purse has been the extent of her exercising for years now. :/

Good luck on your surgery and recovery. Hope it goes as smoothly as possible!
facemaker329
member, 7350 posts
Gaming for over 40
years, and counting!
Fri 2 Jul 2021
at 01:23
  • msg #858

Re: More good stuff.

8 feel much better about the tendonitis I've been recovering from for a month, now...at least it didn't require surgery and it wasn't disabling...just highly inconvenient.  Shoving around scenery that weighs twice as much as you do in 95-plus degree weather is bad enough when you aren't limping...

I also "inherited" two pets...one of the illusions in the show was going to involve a bird...as they started coming to terms with the logistics of it all, they decided to change illusions...which meant they no longer needed the two parakeets they bought. And since I was the only one on the crew who had experience taking care of birds, they went home with me.  Not only two free parakeets, but a $100+ cage, another $100 in toys and cleaning supplies, and several weeks worth of food.  For free.

It's nice having someone/some thing in my apartment when I get home at night.  They haven't yet warmed to me the way my other bird did...but he had almost ten years and they've been with me less than a month.  There's time...
MelJill
member, 72 posts
Fri 2 Jul 2021
at 13:19
  • msg #859

More good stuff.

I'll go ahead and share more good stuff.

In May, the testing that I was having done finally came back with a definitive diagnosis: endometrial adenocarcinoma.  On June 17, I had surgery.  I've had my post op visit and the pathology shows no sign of spread, with a staging of 1b, so that means that all of the cancer was removed.  Recovery is going well.

In addition, the diet that I've been on since January has resulted in a substantial weight loss (still more to lose, but slow and steady is the way) and my fasting glucose levels have been dropping from just short of getting that type II diabetes diagnosis and now 33 points below that high point.  I'm in good standing to beat the family history (my dad is generation 7) and break the chain.  My oncologist also thought that the weight loss may have caused the hormonal shifts that triggered the symptom that led me to testing that got the cancer diagnosed before it progressed to a later stage.
GreenTongue
member, 981 posts
Game Archaeologist
Fri 2 Jul 2021
at 15:47
  • msg #860

More good stuff.

Two parakeets are much better than one as they are flocking birds and need the company.
A "feathered friend" is still a friend and we all can use friends.
engine
member, 839 posts
There's a brain alright
but it's made out of meat
Fri 2 Jul 2021
at 16:01
  • msg #861

More good stuff.

I joined a company soccer team and we played our first game last night. We won, and I even feel like I contributed.
GreenTongue
member, 982 posts
Game Archaeologist
Fri 2 Jul 2021
at 16:53
  • msg #862

More good stuff.

I guess it is only right I add my own "Good Stuff".
We remodeled our master bathroom and when we were done, it was all paid for.

As for gaming, I created a mod for Tabletop Simulator and over 400 people have subscribed to it. It makes me happy that people find it useful.
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